Thankful

Usually Thanksgiving is a two trip event for us.  Grandma Bauer's in the early afternoon and Jennifer and Tom's in the evening.  Denny and Judy are in Germany this year so Jennifer wasn't planning to host.  Brian and I offered to have everyone to our house today to give Grandma a break from hosting.

It's always a lot of work to host the family at holidays.  The day is spent cooking and cleaning and then more cooking and more cleaning.  When it's at your house, it's hard to sit down and enjoy the time with family.  Although looking around, we are pretty blessed.  I am thankful I have this family to cook and clean for.  A full house of a bunch of wonderful people.

As mom and Tom were leaving, Tom went to step out of the house and must have forgotten that there was a step and ended up falling out of the house.  Bobby and Joe were able to help him out to the car but we got a call from mom an hour or so later that he was in so much pain that they made a trip to the ER.  Turns out he broke his leg/knee and would now need to stay off his leg until it can heal.

I know it's not our fault but I can't help but feel horrible about what happened.  We changed the plans, we changed the location, it was our house.  Sending well wishes for a speedy recovery!  

This is not anything that those two need right now :-(